ITHACA, N.Y. – Book publishers cried foul – in the form of numerous legal challenges – nearly two decades ago when the Google Books project digitized and freely distributed more than 25 million works.

[JURIST] Three authors groups on Monday sued [complaint, PDF; press release] HathiTrust [official website] and five universities in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Google Inc argued in a staunch and sometimes eloquent brief that an agreement reached with the Authors Guild to digitize millions of books was legal and a contribution ...

2006-11-24T19:59:55-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/a6a/195115-m.jpgModerated by Marvin Kalb, the panelists debated all sides of the topic, “Whose Work Is It ...

STORY: A company in South Korea is digitizing books in real time using artificial intelligence to provide an immersive reading experience. Woongjin ThinkBig says its new platform "Booxtory" scans a ...

PITTSBURGH—Millions of computer users collectively transcribe the equivalent of 160 books each day with better than 99 percent accuracy, despite the fact that few spend more than a few seconds on the ...

The latest deal adds the libraries of the University of California to the already vast collection books in other substantial libraries, including the prestigious universities of Harvard, Stanford and ...

MANHATTAN (CN) - The Authors Guild and writers groups from Australia and Quebec sued five major universities, to block distribution of unauthorized digital copies of millions of copyrighted works from ...

Someone somewhere in the world is searching for the opening lines of Melville’s "Moby Dick," or maybe a phrase from Toni Morrison’s "Beloved," an anecdote from a Bart Starr biography, a speech by ...